Mal: Does.. um.. does this seem kind of tight? Kaylee: Shows off your backside.

'Shindig'


Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


-t - Aug 23, 2010 2:34:55 pm PDT #29735 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Who, who, who is trying to get away with that?

I don't know! it was too bizarre.


Nora Deirdre - Aug 23, 2010 2:36:56 pm PDT #29736 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

(it was, of course, kid-appropriate and not peppered with phrases like "pulling a train")

BWAH!

I learned the facts of life at age six in the local library. (From a book. I should probably clarify that.)

Suh-nerk!

My mom had a hysterectomy when I was about 6 and my sister was about 4, and so she was explaining the situation and went into the whole sex talk with diagrams from there. It was all very matter of fact and straightforward.


§ ita § - Aug 23, 2010 2:38:50 pm PDT #29737 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I love little kids' reactions to learning about teh sex. They're always "GROSS! WHY WOULD ANYONE DO THAT?"

Yeah, never thought that. I thought it was weird and I didn't understand it, but if it had that many people that caught up in it, it had to be something.

I understood about babies and pregnancy way before I understood about sex. Which is to say, I knew babies grew from eggs in wombs, and I kinda knew sperm helped. I just had no idea where sperm came from, because most of the books my mother had were pretty much conception onwards. The bit where she gave us the talk at 7, I was all "Oh! That's where sperm is kept??"

But mostly she gave us the talk because she'd heard us talking dirty to the kids next door, and she wanted to forestall stuff.

Next time? Get rid of the porn first. Just saying. Because that was where I went right afterwards. Now that I knew there were boy bits in it.


Aims - Aug 23, 2010 2:39:41 pm PDT #29738 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.

We had sex-ed in 5th and 6th grade. Mostly menstruation and anatomy stuff. Basic how babies are made material.

"Real" sex ed was whenever you took Health in high school. My class was much like amych's in the STDs!! AIDS!! Except my teacher (and track coach) also talked about the female orgasm and anal sex.


-t - Aug 23, 2010 2:43:39 pm PDT #29739 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Pretty sure we didn't have a Health class in high school. We did in middle school, I think, but I think more drugs than sex. Then again, we were legally mandated to not be taught evolution, so we probably weren't supposed to hear about sex, either.


Hil R. - Aug 23, 2010 2:43:53 pm PDT #29740 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

"Real" sex ed was whenever you took Health in high school. My class was much like amych's in the STDs!! AIDS!! Except my teacher (and track coach) also talked about the female orgasm and anal sex.

We had Health every year in high school. We were required to take Gym every year, and for one quarter, we'd have Health instead.


§ ita § - Aug 23, 2010 2:46:00 pm PDT #29741 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

When we had the sex talk in UK high school (as opposed to whatever we learnt in biology), all I remember clearly is that all the condoms were stolen. I don't know if anyone was listening at that point. Ships were well into sailing by then.


amych - Aug 23, 2010 2:47:49 pm PDT #29742 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

As a high-schooler, I would've loved a quarter of Health a year, just because I hated PE that much and was actually good at all the failure rates and blood alcohol content calculations.

Instead, we had PE every quarter, plus Health for a separate one-semester course. And I discovered the wisdom of taking archery every quarter with the PE teacher who was notorious for getting high with students out back of the gym.


amyth - Aug 23, 2010 2:51:45 pm PDT #29743 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

In high school, we had to take PE once a week, and ballet once a week, but I'm not even going to pretend like my high school experience was normal. We could also go get Communion before a particularly hard test, if we wanted.


-t - Aug 23, 2010 2:54:17 pm PDT #29744 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

We had 5 semesters of PE required, I think, and one of those was split with driver's ed. There were no different types of PE classes to be taken, though.